Google didn't delete spied data
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July 29, 2012, Sunday
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AFTER being caught spying on people across Europe and Australia with its Wi-Fi-slurping Street View cars, Google had told regulators that it would delete the ill-gotten data. Google broke its promise.
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) received a letter from Google in which the company admits it kept a "small portion" of the electronic information it had been meant to get rid of.
"Google apologizes for this error," Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, said in the letter, which the ICO published on its website. The ICO said in a statement that Google Inc had agreed to delete all that data nearly two years ago, adding that its failure to do so "is cause for concern."
Other regulators were less diplomatic, with Ireland's deputy commissioner for data protection, Gary Davis, calling Google's failure "clearly unacceptable." Davis said his organization wants answers by Wednesday.
Google said that other countries affected included France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia.
In 2010, Google acknowledged that its mapping cars, which carried cameras across the globe to create three-dimensional maps of the world's streets, had scooped up passwords and other data being transmitted over unsecured wireless networks.
Google said the data had not been deleted due to human error.
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) received a letter from Google in which the company admits it kept a "small portion" of the electronic information it had been meant to get rid of.
"Google apologizes for this error," Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, said in the letter, which the ICO published on its website. The ICO said in a statement that Google Inc had agreed to delete all that data nearly two years ago, adding that its failure to do so "is cause for concern."
Other regulators were less diplomatic, with Ireland's deputy commissioner for data protection, Gary Davis, calling Google's failure "clearly unacceptable." Davis said his organization wants answers by Wednesday.
Google said that other countries affected included France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia.
In 2010, Google acknowledged that its mapping cars, which carried cameras across the globe to create three-dimensional maps of the world's streets, had scooped up passwords and other data being transmitted over unsecured wireless networks.
Google said the data had not been deleted due to human error.
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